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Every time someone ask this question I think people are forgetting that Slack was the first of these SaaS chat programs to find major success. Discord, Teams, a
by BoysenberryPi 7y ago
Every time someone ask this question I think people are forgetting that Slack was the first of these SaaS chat programs to find major success. Discord, Teams, and everything else came riding on the heels of Slack's success. While it might just be "another chat app" now, at the time Slack was an easy to setup tool with tons of integrations.
- meagher 7y agoAnd before Slack, HipChat was quite good.
- oweiler 7y agoSo good that Atlassian sold it.
- redis_mlc 7y agoI used the Hipchat web client for a year. It worked perfectly. I heard from others that the native app didn't. I had a chance to talk to one of the Hipchat PMs. Atlassian didn't seem too attached to operating it for some reason.
- DaiPlusPlus 7y agoBefore HipChat was Skype-for-Business...uh... Lync... uh... Office Communications Server... uh... Exchange Server Instant Messaging (using Windows XP’s Windows Messenger) back in 2001!
- exikyut 7y agoWhat, it looks identical to Slack as well!
- scarface74 7y agoThe geek version of “Seinfeld is Unfunny”.... https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...